Glasfaser: Kupferabschaltung durch fehlenden Hausstich erschwert
Wenige Haushalte wollten in den Testgebieten für höhere Datenraten mehr zahlen. Die ersten zwei Pilotgebieten für Kupferabschaltung sind ausgewertet. (Glasfaser, Kabelnetz)
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Wenige Haushalte wollten in den Testgebieten für höhere Datenraten mehr zahlen. Die ersten zwei Pilotgebieten für Kupferabschaltung sind ausgewertet. (Glasfaser, Kabelnetz)
Apple TV+ has a lot of prestige, but not a lot of viewers.
In the streaming world, Apple has a reputation for quality, thanks to its Apple TV hardware and Apple TV+ streaming service. The latter is best associated with original shows and movies surrounded by award buzz and critical acclaim. But despite that success, Apple's streaming service has hardly made a dent in the market at a time when interest in streaming services is bigger than ever.
Apple TV+ launched in 2019. Since then, the company has spent over $20 billion to build an impressive library of original content, Bloomberg reported earlier this year. Yet, despite a highly regarded library of shows and movies with big names in acting and directing, Apple TV+ only garnered 0.3 percent of US screen viewing time in June 2024, per Nielsen.
In July, Bloomberg aptly underscored how minimally competitive Apple TV+ is, writing: "Apple TV+ generates less viewing in one month than Netflix does in one day."
During the coming weeks, the 15,000th piracy-linked resource will likely find itself blocked by Brazilian ISPs in response to yet another court order. Indications that Brazil is already testing piracy blocking measures at the internet’s core routers is controversial, but if blocking is accurate and only targets pirate sites, criticism may be limited. With a new 250+ domain blocking wave implemented this week, let’s take a closer look at how things play out.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Brazil’s enthusiasm for blocking piracy-linked domains and IP addresses is showing no signs of slowing down.
Despite being a relative newcomer to mass blockades on copyright grounds, Brazil’s ISPs will soon find themselves blocking the 15,000th resource since restrictions began in earnest just a couple of years ago.
That the cycle is guaranteed to continue next year, and at minimum a few years after that, celebrating the blocking of the 30,000th domain or IP address is no longer the impossible dream it once was. Whether the constant requirement for more and more blocking is a sign of success, or more like a dream turning into a nightmare, is hard to say. Pirates don’t appear to be deterred by it, that much as obvious.
In a recent interview, a departing board member of telecoms regulator Anatel said that site-blocking is paying off. Artur Coimbra said that customer satisfaction with pirate set-top boxes is in decline and if that continues, one day people won’t want to use piracy services at all.
It’s hard to fault the theory that people dislike spending money on things that fail to perform. Whether that’s how things will actually play out remains to be seen because history has shown that the opposite generally holds true. But Coimbra also had some controversial news up his sleeve about a new piracy countermeasure; he revealed that blocking tests are already underway at the internet’s core routers.
The implications of blocking blunders at the infrastructure level go beyond anything considered thus far. But what if mistakes and the risk to society could be eliminated? What if there was accuracy and transparency and accountability, all at the same time? Given that showing accuracy is largely reliant on full transparency which rarely exists, accountability isn’t a concept closely associated with site-blocking regimes anywhere.
That being said, wherever possible we always try to find out for ourselves and since an unexpected surge of blocking orders covering 250+ domains went live yesterday, now seems a good time to take a closer look.
Brazil’s blocklist isn’t available to the public but since ISPs are required to comply and the effects should in theory be visible, various means allow for a decent overview. Right now the list contains over 13,100 domains and around 1,500 IP addresses, most of them piracy-related but not exclusively so.
Blocked gambling sites also feature quite strongly, as do sites selling vapes, although at least for now, relatively sparingly. Even Elon Musk’s X appeared on the list recently; after the entrepreneur irritated a judge, the convenience of having a blocking mechanism to hand made the consequences very predictable.
Having been heavily targeted previously, stream-ripping platforms deserve a mention, but largely they get to sit this wave out. The list still contains lots of related domains, including around 50 ytmp3 variants, 24 featuring the term y2mate, and another 50 with conv/convert/converter somewhere in their domain, but the new batch is all about streaming.
The new domains added Monday follow directly after a batch of familiar piracy domains including 123movieswatch4k.com, 123movieslane.com, 123movieses.net, 123moviesking.com, and 123movieszfree.me.
With that naming convention offering no surprises, the same holds true for several recently added bflix domains, accompanied by even more 123movies domains, because why not? They’ll be useless by the end of the week anyway.
The list of new additions is initially dominated by variants of multicanais, a popular live sports streaming platform that refuses to stay blocked. Less easy to explain is the domain highlighted in yellow – danielgarcialeilao.org.
While hiding pirate sites within innocent-looking platforms isn’t unheard of, the site shown above appears to be an auction site for recovered and wrecked vehicles, and we haven’t see anything like that before.
Alternatively, if reports elsewhere are to be believed, this may be a fake site impersonating the real Daniel Garcia Auctions. According to reports, the difference is that while one is a business that actually exists, the other takes customers’ money and heads for the hills.
While there will be few complaints if the authorities protect citizens from an alleged scam at the hands of a fake Dan, there’s another Dan on the blocklist that is 100% genuine. Domain sales platform Dan.com is owned by GoDaddy and may not be performing quite as well in Brazil as previously hoped.
The URL https://t.co/rtG5bJ3jkz is also blocked, presumably because it previously linked to FilmesTorrents.net. Today that domain is up for sale on GoDaddy but if anyone from Brazil is interested in it, using a VPN or similar circumvention tool comes with its own risks. We’re informed that circumvention of blockades can be considered an offense in Brazil although under what circumstances isn’t completely clear.
FilmesTorrent fans, meanwhile, must’ve had fun keeping up with domain changes; at the time of writing there are 34 domains on the blocklist with a similar format.
Trying to keep track of domain changes for streaming site Cuevana and its many namesakes would’ve been exponentially more tricky. At the time of writing there are more than 500 variants on the list, including icuevana4.pro, cuevana3z.autos, cuevana3.supply, and the aptly named, cuevanaa.help, which throws in an extra ‘a’ at the end, just to keep things interesting.
Just scrolling through 10,000+ domains is pretty exhausting so detailed checking will likely take us quite a few hours. There’s only so much automated tools can achieve on their own so if other obviously legitimate domains also appear on the list, we’ll report that in due course.
What we can confirm is that after scanning every domain recently added to the list, attempting to take a screenshot, scraping a small amount of text from each, and carrying out some automated security checks, 22 domains had issues related to some type of malware. At least 30 indicated a risk of phishing. In both cases this may relate to a new domain in the event redirects are already in place.
We certainly aren’t recommending that people visit any of the sites but for those who can’t resist, basic anti-virus software is unlikely to detect these types of threats.
That being said, common sense says that Dan.com shouldn’t be on this list. There might be a reason, but it’s unlikely to be viewed in a positive light back in the United States. It’s possible that GoDaddy doesn’t even know that it’s being blocked, but that’s no surprise when transparency becomes a thing of the past.
Brazil: ISP Site Blocking Orders (Online Piracy) [2023-06-28 to 2024-11-18] | |||
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Order Date | Legal Authority/Agency | Site/Piracy Type | Transparency |
2024-11-18 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-11-14 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-11-13 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-11-12 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-11-12 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-11-06 | Tribunal de Justiça do Distrito Federal e dos Territórios | Piracy | Restricted |
2024-10-30 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-10-29 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-10-28 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-10-25 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-10-25 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-10-25 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-10-22 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-10-22 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-10-17 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-10-15 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-10-10 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-10-09 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-10-07 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-10-02 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-10-02 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-09-30 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-09-30 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-09-25 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-09-25 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-09-23 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-09-18 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-09-17 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-09-16 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-09-16 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-09-13 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-09-06 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-09-03 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-08-30 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV)) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-08-29 | Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina | Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-08-29 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-08-27 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-08-26 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-08-16 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-08-15 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-08-13 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-08-12 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-08-07 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-08-07 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-08-07 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-08-02 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-07-29 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-07-24 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-07-24 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-07-23 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-07-22 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-07-16 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-07-10 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-07-10 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-07-04 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-07-01 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-06-27 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-06-26 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-06-24 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-06-21 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-06-20 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-06-19 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-06-04 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-05-29 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-05-24 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-05-22 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-05-17 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-05-10 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-05-10 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-05-07 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-04-22 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-04-19 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-04-10 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming Piracy | Restricted |
2024-04-09 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-03-24 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-03-21 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-03-20 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-03-14 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2024-03-12 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-03-01 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / ABTA (TV) | IPTV / Movie Piracy | Restricted |
2024-02-26 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Streaming | Open |
2024-02-23 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo | IPTV | Open |
2024-02-19 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco | IPTV / Stream-Ripping | Restricted |
2023-12-18 | Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo / CyberGaeco | Stream-Ripping | Open |
2023-12-06 | Tribunal de Justiça de Pernambuco / Policia Civil de Pernambuco | IPTV | Open |
2023-08-31 | Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel) | Restricted | |
2023-08-10 | Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel) | Restricted | |
2023-07-28 | Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel) | Restricted | |
2023-06-28 | Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel) | Restricted |
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Data caps reflect “highly competitive environment,” cable lobby tells FCC.
The Federal Communications Commission's plan to investigate and potentially regulate data caps is all but dead now, after President-elect Donald Trump's announcement that he will promote Commissioner Brendan Carr to the chairmanship role.
The FCC last month voted 3–2 to open a formal inquiry into how broadband data caps affect consumers and whether the commission has authority to regulate how Internet service providers impose such caps. The proceeding is continuing for now, as the FCC comment and reply comment deadlines are November 14 and December 2. You can view the docket here.
Broadband industry lobby groups knew they would face no possibility of data-cap regulation once Trump won the election. But they submitted their comments late last week, making the case that data caps are good for customers and that the FCC has no authority to regulate them—the same arguments that Carr made when he dissented from the vote to open an inquiry.
Machine learning generates the closer-up ground in this very big sequel.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is out today (Xbox/PC, Steam), and it packs in a whole lot of simulation. It's hard to imagine topping the 2020 version, which contained the entire world, at scale, 3D modeled and able to be flown over. It had real-time weather and rather detailed physics. You could theoretically fly a helicopter back to your high school football field and land on it, like 15-year reunion royalty. What could come next?
A lot, including a world simulation that Microsoft repeatedly describes as Earth's "full digital twin." There are few, if any, real "reviews" up yet, given the size of the game and seemingly late access for reviewers. As such, I offer up all the notable things packed into this latest release so that those with flight sticks, patience, and a desire to get way up yonder can decide whether to take off.
It's a whole lot smaller, at least on first install. The 2020 version would take about 130GB on first grab (or 90GB if you manually loaded in 10 DVDs), but 2024 is "around 30" gigabytes, according to Asobo CEO Sebastian Wloch, who spoke with TechRadar. This should also be a major boon to those playing on Xbox, where space is more constrained.
Amazon hat den beliebten Wera Tool-Check Plus und selbsteinstellende Joker-Maulschlüssel im Set zum Bestpreis im Angebot. (Technik/Hardware)
After claims of high-temp superconductivity were retracted, Ranga Dias lost his university job.
University of Rochester physicist Ranga Dias made headlines with his controversial claims of high-temperature superconductivity—and made headlines again when the two papers reporting the breakthroughs were later retracted under suspicion of scientific misconduct, although Dias denied any wrongdoing. The university conducted a formal investigation over the past year and has now terminated Dias' employment, The Wall Street Journal reported.
“In the past year, the university completed a fair and thorough investigation—conducted by a panel of nationally and internationally known physicists—into data reliability concerns within several retracted papers in which Dias served as a senior and corresponding author,” a spokesperson for the University of Rochester said in a statement to the WSJ, confirming his termination. “The final report concluded that he engaged in research misconduct while a faculty member here.”
The spokesperson declined to elaborate further on the details of his departure, and Dias did not respond to the WSJ's request for comment. Dias did not have tenure, so the final decision rested with the Board of Trustees after a recommendation from university President Sarah Mangelsdorf. Mangelsdorf had called for terminating his position in an August letter to the chair and vice chair of the Board of Trustees, so the decision should not come as a surprise. Dias' lawsuit claiming that the investigation was biased was dismissed by a judge in April.
Ars has been following this story ever since Dias first burst onto the scene with reports of a high-pressure, room-temperature superconductor, published in Nature in 2020. Even as that paper was being retracted due to concerns about the validity of some of its data, Dias published a second paper in Nature claiming a similar breakthrough: a superconductor that works at high temperatures but somewhat lower pressures. Shortly afterward, that paper was retracted as well. As Ars Science Editor John Timmer reported previously:
Dias' lab was focused on high-pressure superconductivity. At extreme pressures, the orbitals where electrons hang out get distorted, which can alter the chemistry and electronic properties of materials. This can mean the formation of chemical compounds that don't exist at normal pressures, along with distinct conductivity. In a number of cases, these changes enabled superconductivity at unusually high temperatures, although still well below the freezing point of water.
Dias, however, supposedly found a combination of chemicals that would boost the transition to superconductivity to near room temperature, although only at extreme pressures. While the results were plausible, the details regarding how some of the data was processed to produce one of the paper's key graphs were lacking, and Dias didn't provide a clear explanation.
The ensuing investigation cleared Dias of misconduct for that first paper. Then came the second paper, which reported another high-temperature superconductor forming at less extreme pressures. However, potential problems soon became apparent, with many of the authors calling for its retraction, although Dias did not.
Erste Testmuster deuten auf Bewegung bei Intels dedizierten Grafikkarten hin. Möglicherweise steht ein Launch in den kommenden Monaten bevor. (Grafikkarten, Intel)
Small, plastic thin client is Microsoft’s first “Cloud PC,” launches in April.
Microsoft is announcing some new hardware today, but it’s a bit different from a typical Surface device. The Windows 365 Link, which launches in April for $349, is a mini desktop PC that exists exclusively to connect to the Windows 365 cloud service rather than running Windows locally.
The Windows 365 Link is a plain black plastic box with a Windows logo imprinted on the top—it looks like a smaller, squarer version of the Windows Dev Kit 2023, an Arm desktop that Microsoft released for developers a couple of years ago. The box has one USB-A port on the front for easy access. On the back, you get a single USB-C 3.2 port, two more USB-A ports, a full-size DisplayPort, a full-size HDMI port, an Ethernet port, and a power jack.
Windows Central reports that the device is fanless, uses an unspecified Intel processor, and includes 8GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. It runs a cut-down Windows variant that exists only to connect to local peripherals and make contact with Microsoft’s Windows 365 service. When not connected to the Internet, the PC is mostly non-functional, though there is presumably some kind of basic UI available for connecting to networks and accessories locally.
As US struggles to afford GLP-1 drugs, the rest of the world sees much lower prices.
Patients in China will be able to purchase the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy for 1,400 yuan, or about $193, just a fraction of the US list price of $1,349, according to media reports.
The price in China is in line with pricing elsewhere outside of the US. As Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) noted in a September Senate hearing, Wegovy, made by Novo Nordisk, is sold for $265 in Canada, $186 in Denmark, $137 in Germany, and just $92 in the United Kingdom. In the hearing, Sanders and other senators grilled Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Jørgensen on the "outrageously high prices" in the US of Wegovy and the company's other popular GLP-1 drug, Ozempic, used for diabetes.
"What we are dealing with today is not just an issue of economics, it is not just an issue of corporate greed. It is a profound moral issue," Sanders said in opening remarks about the prices of the highly effective drugs.
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